For about 150 years, finance has essentially charged a 2percentt fee on financial assets, like stocks, bonds and loans, according to research by a New York University economist, Thomas Philippon.
Intriguingly, Mr. Draghi raised the possibility of imposing a "negative rate" on the deposits that banks routinely park at the central bank, essentially charging banks to store their money.
Like the punishing prepayment penalties some homeowners have to come up with when paying off a mortgage early, termination fees on deals like Denver's are essentially charges levied to rewrite the terms of a contract.
Antes exist specifically to discourage inactivity (particularly among those with less-than-stellar hands) by immediately establishing a high reward for the winner and essentially charging a fee for the tight player's patient folding.
"I think it was the first time I got a bee in my bonnet about what this guy was doing, which was essentially charging her quite a deal of money and telling her some pretty awful things.
Mr. Olofson essentially charged that the company increased revenue through the manipulation of contracts that allowed it to show rising sales while keeping the expenses related to those sales off its income statement.
The case has an unusually high profile, in part because Cherie Booth, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, is on the Gurkhas' legal team, essentially charging her husband's government with human rights violations.
Police violence is seen throughout, in unjustified and brutal stops of black men guilty of nothing — essentially, charged with standing while black — when the police, without arresting them, proceed to handcuff them, beat them, insult them with racist epithets, intimidate them, and assert dominion over them.
Necto essentially charges for the guidance of how to start an ISP, including a class that individuals go through in order to get one off the ground.
